Enhanced photovoltaic performance of inverted organic solar cells with In-doped ZnO as an electron extraction layer

Renewable Energy

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 433-442

  Thambidurai, M ^a   Kim, Jun Young ^a   Kang, Chan mo ^a   Muthukumarasamy, N ^b   Song, Hyung Jun ^a   Song, Jiyun ^a   Ko, Youngjun ^a   Velauthapillai, Dhayalan ^c   Lee, Changhee ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning   (India)

^c BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

In doping; Inverted organic solar cells; PC71BM; PCDTBT; Sol gel method

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION CONDITIONS; ELECTRON EXTRACTION; INDIUM CONCENTRATION; INVERTED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; NANOCRYSTALLINE THIN FILMS; PCDTBT; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION; INDIUM; METALLIC FILMS; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTRON; FUEL CELL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; ZINC;

EID: 84892972643     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.12.031     Document Type: Article

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